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Biography of Ron S. Kenett

• Interests and expertise:

    o Strategic Planning and Quality Management

    o Statistical Methods and Industrial Statistics

    o Data Mining and Risk Management

    o Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments

    o Change Management and Organizational Development

    o Software Process Quality Management

    o Software Cybernetics and Software Reliability

    o Biostatistics, Biomathematics and Clinical Trials

 

• Chairman and CEO of the KPA Group, Research Professor, University of Torino, Turin, Italy, International Professor Associate, Center for Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly, NY, USA and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ron is Editor in Chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability, Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of QTQM and Associate Editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (ASMBI). He is Chairman of the Board of Takeoff, an organization whose mission is to help start-up companies develop and establish strategic partnerships, and a Member of the Board of Directors of Optimata and the publicly traded biotech company D-Pharm.
  
• Professor of Management at the State University of New York (1987-1992), where he was awarded the General Electric Quality Management Fellowship. Director of Statistical Methods for Tadiran Telecommunications Corporation (1981-1990) and Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey (1979-1981).
  
• Ph.D. in Mathematics (1978) from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.
  B.Sc. in Mathematics (1974) from Imperial College of Science and Technology, with first class honors, London University, London, UK.

Over 25 years of experience in restructuring and improving the competitive position of organizations by integrating statistical methods, process analysis, supporting technologies and modern human resource management systems. Published more than 160 papers in leading journals on applied statistics, process improvement and management topics. Authored and co-edited books and book chapters listed below.

Books and Chapters by Ron S. Kenett

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OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT: A practical approach to intelligent data analysis (co-edited with Y. Raanan). For the printed version click John Wiley and Sons, 2010. For the online version click here. For a free copy of chapter 1 click here.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT AND CMMI FOR SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE

(With E. Baker and a foreword by S. Yau), Taylor and Francis Group, Auerbach Publications, 2010. For the online version click here.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STATISTICS IN QUALITY AND RELIABILITY (co-edited with F. Ruggeri and F. Faltin).Printed version, John Wiley and Sons, 2007. Online version, Wiley InterScience, 2008. This four volume major reference work includes over 2000 pages and 400 entries in the following areas:

• Management of Quality & Business Statistics

• Process Capability & Measurement Systems Analysis

• Design of Experiments & Robust Design

• Sampling

• Process Control

• Life Distribution Modeling & Accelerated Testing

• Life Cycle & Warranty Cost Prediction

• System Reliability

• Health, Safety & Environmental Applications

• Statistical and Stochastic Modeling

• Computationally Intensive Methods & Simulation

• Basic Statistics

MODERN INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS: Design and Control of Quality and Reliability

(With S. Zacks and a foreword by Robert W. Galvin, Chairman of the Executive
Committee, Motorola Inc.) Duxbury press, 1998, Spanish edition, 2002, 2nd paperback edition, 2002, Chinese edition, 2004. To download software included in the CD-ROM attached to the book, click the name of the requested section that you will need to unzip as a directory with the zip name under C:\ISTAT

Data files     Minitab Files   JMP Files    SPLUS Files   Quick Basic Files

Chapter 4   Chapter 7   Chapter 9   Chapter 10   Chapter 11   Chapter 12    Chapter 13   Chapter 14

SOFTWARE PROCESS QUALITY: Management and Control (With E. Baker) Marcel Dekker Inc., Taylor and Francis Group, 1999.

MULTIVARIATE QUALITY CONTROL: Theory and Applications (With C. Fuchs) Marcel Dekker Inc., Taylor and Francis group, 1998.

Chapters

Modeling Web Usability Diagnostics on the basis of Usage Statistics (with A. Harel and F. Ruggeri) in Statistical Methods in eCommerce Research , edited by W. Jank and G. Shmueli, Wiley, 2008.

The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture (with A. de Frenne, X. Tort-Martorell and C.   McCollin) and Management Statistics (with I. Ograjenšek), in Statistical Practice in Business and Industry, edited by S. Coleman, T. Greenfield, D. Stewardson and D. Montgomery, Wiley, 2008.

The Role of Change Management in IT Systems Implementation (with S. Lombardo) in- Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice , edited by P. Saha, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Idea Group Inc., 2007.

Applying Case Based Reasoning Approach in Analyzing Organizational Change Management Data (with O. Raphaeli and J. Zahavi), in- Advances in Data Mining: Applications in Image Mining, Medicine and Biotechnology, Management and Environmental Control, and Telecommunications; 4th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), edited by P. Perner, Springer Verlag, 2005

Robust Design Using Computer Experiments (with R. Bates, D. Steinberg and H. Wynn) in- Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2004 (Mathematics in Industry /The European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry) edited by Al. Di Bucchianico, R. Mattheij, and M. Peletier, Springer Verlag, 2005

Process Performance, Appraisal and Employee Development Planning
(with M. Maisel) in - Handbook of Total Quality management  edited by C. Madu, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

Issues in Customer Satisfaction Survey Design and Implementation, in -
Surveys: Some good, some less edited by Camil Fuchs and Shaul Bar-Lev, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House Ltd. and Haifa University Press (in Hebrew), 1998

Management for Quality in Ancient Israel, in - A History of Managing for Quality edited by J. Juran, Quality Press, 1995

Understanding the Software Process, in - Total Quality Management for Software  edited by G. Schulmeyer and J. McManus Van Nostrand- Reinholt, 1992

Academic courses

• Software Reliability: a graduate course taught at Tel Aviv University's School of Engineering (www.kpa.co.il/softrel)

• Statistics for Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics: a graduate course taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science (www.kpa.co.il/biostat)

• Seminar Series on the Applications of Statistics in Business and Industry, University of Torino, Torino, ITALY: 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009.

• Strategy Management: a graduate course taught at Bar Ilan University (www.kpa.co.il/strategycourse)

Academic curriculum vitae with lists of publications
Academic CV of Ron Kenett